There¹s been an Indian Ringneck in the Gungahlin suburbs for about 3 years
now.
John
On 21/12/2013 2:25 pm, "Mark Clayton" <> wrote:
>Philip Veerman's message reminds me that last Tuesday morning (Dec 17)
>there
>was a Rose-ringed Parrot (Indian Ringneck) on the path just below the
>Sydney
>Sandstone garden in the ANBG. It obviously hadn't been out of its cage for
>too long as it was having trouble with sustained flight. A COG Incidental
>Record form will be submitted.
>
>Mark
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Philip Veerman
>Sent: Saturday, 21 December 2013 1:37 PM
>To: 'Elizabeth Compston'; 'Birds Canberra'
>Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] budgie
>
>It can get quite cold in inland Australia too, but not as sustained as in
>Washington. There are whole populations of tropical (mainly South
>American)
>parrots in USA cities as well as various feral Asian parrots common in
>Europe. So they can get by quite well.
>
>For what it is worth, there is a interest group devoted to feral parrots.
>Here is a message from 3 years ago for anyone who would like to follow
>this.
>
>
>Philip
>
>Dear parrot researchers and parrot friends,
>
>You are cordially invited to join the "World Parrot Count". We, Roelant
>Jonker and Michael Braun of the "extra-tropical department" of the Parrot
>Researchers Group of the International Ornithological Union (IOU), would
>like to initiate the first global parrot census this January in order to
>get
>much needed scientific data about parrots living in cities around the
>globe.
>This count is intended to become an annual event. For further information
>please visit the following website:
>http://www.cml.leiden.edu/parrot.html
>
>If you have any questions please contact us via the following
>E-mail-address:
>
>
>Please feel free to forward this message to everybody who could be
>interested. We would like to create a global parrot community of
>professional researchers, field ornithologists as well as amateur
>naturalist
>that will enable us to measure the development of native and non-native
>parrots living in cities.
>
>See you at the roost!
>
>All best,
>
>Roelant Jonker (Leiden University, The Netherlands) Michael Braun
>(Heidelberg University, Germany)
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Elizabeth Compston
>Sent: Saturday, 21 December 2013 10:34 AM
>To: Birds Canberra
>Subject: [canberrabirds] budgie
>
>
>
>Message from and American friend who has spent time with us, in Canberra
>and
>elsewhere, bird watching
>
>Elizabeth Compston
>
>> I woke up this morning with the resolution to answer your letter of 10
>> December before I forget to do so what with all of the impending
>> activity of Christmas. But it turns out that I didn't have to have
>> that resolve because one of the most interesting items appeared this
>> morning at breakfast. That item is a budgerigar which had been
>> visiting our feeders since we returned from Cape Cod where I spend the
>> summer at the GFD program. It must have escaped from a cage in
>> someone's house. We were impressed by that little bird because it
>> competed pretty effectively with some very aggressive sparrows and
>> some bigger birds. In fact, it tended to dominate the other birds at
>> both of our two feeders. However, I figured that it was only a matter
>> of time before it would disappear because the temperature has gotten
>> steadily colder, and sure enough we had not seen it during this very
>> cold month - until this morning, when it appeared again in spite of
>> the -10C temperature. Since I had seen it only in the outback in
>> Australia, I figured that it was confined to warm climates.
>> Obviously, not so. I wonder how long it will be able to withstand the
>> winter temperatures that will inevitably be present for the remainder
>> of the winter.
>
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